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This map shows the largest immigration inflows by country of origin to the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Iceland, specifically inflows which exceed an annual average of 1000 people from a specific country of origin during the period 1990-1999.

The size of the arrows equate to the size of the flow of migrants from the country of origin to the Faroe Islands, Greenland or Iceland. The colour of the arrows represents the Nordic destination country – orange shows an immigrant flow to Greenland; brown to the Faroe Islands; and dark blue to Iceland. Only average annual inflows of over 1000 people are included in the map. Nordic countries are shown as dark grey in the map, while all other countries of origin are shown in light grey.

Map id: 02248q

Designer/Cartographer

Linus Rispling

Data source

NSI, Nordic Statistics

Published
21 June 2017

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Major immigration flows to the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Iceland 1990-1999

Average annual flows above 1000 people by country of origin

Migration flows by country of origin are of growing interest in the Nordic Region due to the recent unprecedented in-flows of migrants. There are also interesting differences between the Nordic countries with respect to the dominant countries of origin of migrants and the size of inflows.

The only major migrant inflows to the Faroe Islands and Greenland during the 1990s were from Denmark. No annual average migrant inflows to Iceland from a single country of origin exceeded 1000 people during the period.